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Objectivity and historical understanding
- Title
- Objectivity and historical understanding / Andrew Beards.
- Author
- Beards, Andrew.
- Publication
- Aldershot [England] ; Brookfield, VT : Avebury, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BD220 .B437 1997g | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 173 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Avebury series in philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Avebury series in philosophy.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. History or legend? -- 3. Cognitional theory -- 4. Knowledge and objectivity -- 5. Objectivity: science and common sense -- 6. Comparisons and contrasts: Davidson and Lonergan -- 7. Comparisons and contrasts: Lonergan and Rorty -- 8. Objections to the position -- 9. Lonergan on historiography -- 10. The problems of historical objectivity -- 11. Historical fact -- 12. Metahistory -- 13. Objectivity and the objectives of history -- 14. Conclusion -- App. Transcendental arguments.
- ISBN
- 185972521X
- LCCN
- 96079951
- OCLC
- ocm36864238
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries